(19)
(11) EP 1 193 713 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
08.05.2002 Bulletin 2002/19

(43) Date of publication A2:
03.04.2002 Bulletin 2002/14

(21) Application number: 01122662.8

(22) Date of filing: 28.09.2001
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7: G11B 27/034, G06F 17/30
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK RO SI

(30) Priority: 28.09.2000 JP 2000297170
16.10.2000 JP 2000315765
02.03.2001 JP 2001059191

(71) Applicants:
  • Information Broadcasting Laboratories, Inc.
    Taito-ku, Tokyo 111-0035 (JP)
  • Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Tokyo 143-8555 (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Wakita, Yuki
    Ohta-ku, Tokyo 143-8555 (JP)
  • Kunieda, Takayuki
    Ohta-ku, Tokyo 143-8555 (JP)
  • Takahashi, Nozomu
    Ohta-ku, Tokyo 143-8555 (JP)
  • Suzuki, Kiyoshi
    Ohta-ku, Tokyo 143-8555 (JP)

(74) Representative: Schwabe - Sandmair - Marx 
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81677 München
81677 München (DE)

   


(54) Editing apparatus for editing the content structure of an object


(57) A structure editing apparatus and a picture structure editing apparatus capable of modifying or correcting a structure created in advance with data having a range (segment) set as a structural unit while utilizing original structure information as much as possible are provided. Each apparatus includes a first designating unit designating an arbitrary segment in structure information as a target segment; a second designating unit designating an arbitrary position included in a range of the target segment; and a segment dividing unit dividing the range of the target segment into two segments, i.e., a first half segment and a second half segment with the position designated by the second designating unit set as a dividing position, and replacing the target segment by the two segments.






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